Since it’s my last day at MSNBC, here are my thoughts on the @JoyAnnReid controversy. Keep in mind, I don’t know anything that hasn’t already been published. No secret info here. Just my personal thoughts as an out lesbian journalist.
— Mary Emily O’Hara (@MaryEmilyOHara) April 26, 2018
I believe it is entirely possible – nay, practically unavoidable – that hackers went to the states lengths to smear Joy and make it look like she wrote some overtly homophobic posts years ago. I believe Joy is probably telling the truth.
— Mary Emily O’Hara (@MaryEmilyOHara) April 26, 2018
As a fan of her work and a former MSNBC employee, I’ve watched Joy Reid be targeted over and over by tireless Wikileaks and alt-right types. She seems to be their public enemy number one. And those people seized on the “Miss Charlie” posts, kept bringing them up in weird ways.
— Mary Emily O’Hara (@MaryEmilyOHara) April 26, 2018
Every time I retweeted Joy or posted one of her videos these trolls would start with me, saying “isn’t she homophobic” and stuff because they knew I was gay. Trolls who hate Joy were more focused on it than actual LGBT people I know were.
— Mary Emily O’Hara (@MaryEmilyOHara) April 26, 2018
We’re living in a time when Russian operatives spend millions to swing our elections on social media, Wikileaks conspires to hack the DNC, gun fans doctor videos to smear kids who survived a school shooting. You really think it’s far-fetched to hack archives of Joy Reid’s blog?
— Mary Emily O’Hara (@MaryEmilyOHara) April 26, 2018
I think Joy Reid is wicked smart, politically progressive, and culturally aware. She’s also one of the most despised enemies of Wikileaks and the alt-right. So yes, personally I believe she’s been hacked – probably more than once. I’m hoping we all find out more soon.
— Mary Emily O’Hara (@MaryEmilyOHara) April 26, 2018
The last thing I'll say is this: I might be wrong. This is an incredibly complicated event, whether it consists of elaborate hacking or of a person lying to cover up the shame they feel about past actions. But my instincts and experience tell me it's the former.
— Mary Emily O’Hara (@MaryEmilyOHara) April 26, 2018
Holy. Actual. Fuck. https://t.co/hqOAO0aPr7
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) April 27, 2018
— Alain Cornet (@CarlAntoine) April 27, 2018
— Alain Cornet (@CarlAntoine) April 27, 2018
To see how sad & collapsed liberal discourse is in the Trump era, just look at this amazing thread: a perfectly smart MSNBC journalist ignoring all the evidence to say she believes Reid because Putin or WL probably hacked her. This is a collective illness: https://t.co/gdT64XtvYX
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 27, 2018
For the last time: this was *never* about using Reid's old, bad posts against her. Had she just said: "yeah, I wrote those; they're terrible; I've changed my mind," nobody would have cared. This is, and always was about, whether you think it's OK for journalists to publicly lie pic.twitter.com/edFtSpmrSo
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 27, 2018
17 witnesses from #Douma, including people featured in the famous video, testify to the #OPCW that the "chemical attack" never happened. It is not televised in the #UK, it is barely reported, except to quote allied diplomats who accuse them of lying. Disgusting propaganda. #Syria
— OffGuardian (@OffGuardian0) April 27, 2018
Just got my Facebook back after six months of it being shut down for no reason, first post since my return gets censored. Thanks for your help thus far @katieharbath but how does Jack Nicholson go against your community standards? pic.twitter.com/PyDXddkPm3
— Partisangirl 🇸🇾 (@Partisangirl) April 26, 2018
Here is something spotted by Angry Arab:
